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To add to the info, the Beaufighter V aircraft was produced to specification F.18/40, issued first in October 1940 for a fixed gun night fighter to replace the Defiant. In December 1940 the spec was reissued with the criteria for a powered turret, which led to a couple of things happening, one...

Picture taken at the Kanoya Air Base Museum, home to the last surviving Kawanishi H8K Emily flying boat that used to sit outside the Tokyo Museum of Maritime Science and Industry. I'll be making a trip to Kanoya on my next visit to Japan...

The problem with making comparisons between each country's machines is that we have access to information today that the designers or intelligence personnel could not have had back then. Before the war there wasn't very much sharing of intelligence, although it did happen. A few European...

It is very interesting, so please do continue, although we wouldn't want you to get into trouble for it, so don't go risking your neck on our behalf. Thank you, though!:salute:

Big Beautiful Doll! One of two well known warbirds carrying those striking markings. The other was the Duxford-based ex-RAAF CAC Mustang that sadly met its end by colliding with a Skyraider. BBD IWMD IWM also had a full scale replica of the Doll at Lambeth, too. It's now at Duxford in...

Let's not forget that back in the 50s and 60s, IFR on a massive scale was evolving and only the USAF could afford to field large numbers of tankers, the RAF did have tankers of course, as the Lightning was fitted with a probe, but the RAF's requirements and therefore number of tankers did not...

Last lot. Viper return. _ADP5597 _ADP5605 _ADP5609 _ADP5610 _ADP5617 _ADP5619 _ADP5620 _ADP5623 These shots are taken from the 6th floor bar of the airport Novotel, which provides a great view of the Antarctic ramp. The staff don't mind if we photographers park ourselves there to...

More from CHC Moose returning... _ADP5480 _ADP5481 _ADP5487 _ADP5494 _ADP5495 Viper departure. _ADP5501 _ADP5507 _ADP5511 _ADP5515 _ADP5519 _ADP5523 _ADP5541 Back in the parking area at the day's end. _ADP5567 _ADP5570 _ADP5571 _ADP5573 Skibird C-130H of the NYANG...

Hi guys, some shots of modern military movements at Christchurch Airport for Warbirds over Wanaka taken on the first day of the airshow. The big stuff is not based at Wanaka Airport because it is too small, so it transits from CHC. A buddy and I travelled to CHC to see what we could photograph...

I've figured it out now. The Zoo bunker was in fact the first of the Berlin Flakturme built, hence the mistake in identity. Odd that it be designated II given it was the first built. Bureaucracy.

There plenty, believe you me... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147661871@N04/albums/72157709594792612/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/147661871@N04/albums/72157718933895386/page2

A funny anecdote I heard from an RAF bod once was that the Jaguar was the only RAF aircraft in which its take-off run was counted as a part of its combat radius... One reason for the Jag's overwing pylons was because the inboard wing pylons were almost always occupied by fuel tanks, thus...

As an aside, Boulton Paul proposed a turret armed with 50 cal MGs to the Air Ministry in 1940, but the firm was told by MAP that expediency was the key at the time and the firm was ordered to concentrate on producing turrets armed with 30 cal MGs to fit aircraft rolling off the production lines...

Awesome pictures, Jeff. When and where was this event? Princess Elizabeth? This photo was taken in 1997 at Duxford England, note the incomplete colour scheme. There was a rush to get the aircraft airworthy for the airshow and the paint team hadn't finished applying the unit markings or colour...

Thanks Terry. I had to do it justice...